NT: The Alice Springs Desert Park is situated at the base of the Macdonnell
Ranges adjacent to Alice Springs.

AUTHORITY/STATUS:

Northern Territory government.

ACCESS:

Public access.

ASSOCIATED LIVING COLLECTION:

FOUNDATION:

The Herbarium of the Northern Territory (NT) was founded in Alice Springs
in 1954. A separate collection was started in Darwin (DNA) in late 1966.In
1989 the bulk of the collections in Alice Springs were shifted to Palmerston
to combine with DNA which had relocated from Berrimah, a suburb of Darwin.
The collection at Alice Springs, still referred to as NT, remains as a
reference collection for the arid zone of the Northern Territory.

FUNCTIONS:

State herbarium. Loan requests and correspondence should be directed
to the Curator (DNA).

Computerisation

Status:

-

Database Name:

HOLTZE

Database Description:

ORACLE with an Apex web browser interface.

Number of Specimen Records:

234,228

Access:

Data entered in Palmerston and Alice Springs. About 20 read-only users
in our department and Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries. Data
retrieval: charges made for large retrievals, otherwise free.